Sounds more like a country thing. We operate out of a Greek airport which has no obstacles (according to the airport). We often wondered about the fact we were often at eye level with the cross on the local town's church on heavyweight take-offs. We sent our own surveyers out there to take a look, and now we have something more like accurate obstacle data for the airport.
The other end of the runway has a vertical drop off a cliff into the sea - Lovely!
A prize for guessing which airport.